From the Aug. 19, 2009, Boston Globe.
Barry Clifford brought up his own booty from the pirate ship Whydah (pron. WIH-dah), which sank in a 1717 storm. The late John F. Kennedy, Jr, spotted two cannons on a previous dive to the site.
The ship was discovered in 1984.
One of the cannons weighs 1500 pounds and the other 2000. several pistols and other corroded items have also been found.
In its short career in the early 1700s, the Whydah ransacked 50 other ships.
It's a Pirate's Life for Me. --DaCoot
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
A Pirate Story Comes to Chicago-- Part 2
Most of the Whydah's treasure has not yet been recovered, but thousands of other artifacts have which form the basis of the traveling collection. The National Geographic Society is a pardner in the show.
A PIRATE'S LIFE
Those joining a Pirate ship had to sign the ship's articles pledging their loyalty and never to betray their shipmates. "Plunder was carefully and fairly apportioned among captain and crew, and officers were elected." Clifford said, "They were outlaws who were experimenting with democracy."
The majority of the men on pirate ships were in their twenties who had been forced to serve on merchant and naval vessels, volunteered for greed and adventure, or were escaped slaves or liberated from slave ships.
Pirate ships carried much larger crews with the best cannons and hand weapons, they tried to scare vessels into surrendering.
Might Be a Good Trip This Summer. --Cooter
A PIRATE'S LIFE
Those joining a Pirate ship had to sign the ship's articles pledging their loyalty and never to betray their shipmates. "Plunder was carefully and fairly apportioned among captain and crew, and officers were elected." Clifford said, "They were outlaws who were experimenting with democracy."
The majority of the men on pirate ships were in their twenties who had been forced to serve on merchant and naval vessels, volunteered for greed and adventure, or were escaped slaves or liberated from slave ships.
Pirate ships carried much larger crews with the best cannons and hand weapons, they tried to scare vessels into surrendering.
Might Be a Good Trip This Summer. --Cooter
A Pirate Story in Chicago
The February 25th Chicago Tribune ran an article "Real pirate story comes to Field" by William Mullen.
The pirate ship Whydah sank in a horrific storm off Cape Cod in 1717. Only two of its 146 crew members survived. For years, it was more of a good legend than fact as it lay under thirty feet of sand until 1984, when marine salvager Barry Clifford, who had been doing intensive research on the ship found it in shallow water.
The Whydah is the first and only verified Pirate wreck ever located and recovered.
A traveling exhibit has opened at Chicago's Field Museum and will run through October 25th. It hopes to shed light on pirates, especially after the success of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. Weapons, jewelry, gold, ingots, tools, clothing and utensils will be on display.
THE WHYDAH
The ship was named after a slave port in Africa and was built in England in 1715 to carry slaves to the New World. It was 100 feet long, 300 tons, with a speed up to 13 knots. As a pirate ship it mounted 18 cannons.
After its first Middle Passage (carrying slaves), it was returning to London when it was captured by pirate Sam Bellamy in 1716, who made it his flagship. It then went on a year-long piracy spree and was loaded with booty when it sank.
More Piracy to Come. --Cooter
The pirate ship Whydah sank in a horrific storm off Cape Cod in 1717. Only two of its 146 crew members survived. For years, it was more of a good legend than fact as it lay under thirty feet of sand until 1984, when marine salvager Barry Clifford, who had been doing intensive research on the ship found it in shallow water.
The Whydah is the first and only verified Pirate wreck ever located and recovered.
A traveling exhibit has opened at Chicago's Field Museum and will run through October 25th. It hopes to shed light on pirates, especially after the success of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. Weapons, jewelry, gold, ingots, tools, clothing and utensils will be on display.
THE WHYDAH
The ship was named after a slave port in Africa and was built in England in 1715 to carry slaves to the New World. It was 100 feet long, 300 tons, with a speed up to 13 knots. As a pirate ship it mounted 18 cannons.
After its first Middle Passage (carrying slaves), it was returning to London when it was captured by pirate Sam Bellamy in 1716, who made it his flagship. It then went on a year-long piracy spree and was loaded with booty when it sank.
More Piracy to Come. --Cooter
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